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Lanka stops on-arrival visa for Bangladeshi nationals: SRI LANKA
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By Mizan Rahman/Dhaka
Sri Lanka has stopped issuing on-arrival visas for Bangladeshi nationals without informing Dhaka, officials at the foreign ministry said.
Bangladesh also retaliated by stopping on-arrival visa facilities for Sri Lankan
nationals, they said.
In addition, the foreign ministry summoned Sri Lankan high commissioner to Dhaka Yasoja Gunasekera to the ministry.
During a meeting that lasted more than an hour, additional foreign secretary (bilateral and consular) Kamrul Ahsan voiced Dhaka’s dissatisfaction over the development and wanted to know the reason or reasons, said the sources.
In response, the Sri Lankan high commissioner said she herself did not know and she will come back to the foreign ministry after consulting her foreign
ministry in Colombo.
“I am still trying to figure out the answer myself. I was not given any indication,” she told newsmen.